Show #1332 1990-05-22 (taped 1989-12-12) Regular

Richard Neale game 1.

Contestants

Richard Neale — a taxpayer service representative from Concord, California

Elaine Lavine — a real estate manager from New York City, New York

Joe Esparza — a cathecetical center associate director from San Antonio, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $2,999)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joe $1,800 $1,900 $500 $1,000
3rd place: a Gaggia ice cream machine
$300
10 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Elaine $600 $1,800 $3,600 $6,801
2nd place: a trip to Malaysia
$3,600
10 R, 0 W
Richard $900 $2,600 $6,400 $10,000
New champion: $10,000
$11,400
28 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

"NORTH" U.S. HISTORY FOOD EUROPE ANIMALS "SOUTH"
$100 [12]
This university's 2 campuses in Chicago & Evanston, Illinois both front on Lake Michigan
Northwestern
Joe
$100 [17]
In 1838 Congress granted mail carrier status to this new form of transportation
railroads
Joe Richard
$100 [22]
Marigold petals are sometimes added to chicken feed to insure that these will be bright yellow
egg yolks
Richard
$100 [1]
Switzerland's largest city in population, it's alphabetically last except for Zurzach & Zweisimmen
Zurich
Elaine
$100 [2]
Called the "King of the Terriers", its original home was the valley of the river Aire
an Airedale
Joe
$100 [7]
Slang for a left-handed baseball pitcher
southpaw
Elaine
$300 [14]
The founder of Lockheed later founded this competing aircraft company named for himself
Northrop
Joe
$200 [18]
America's first successful world exposition was held in 1876 in this Pennsylvania city
Philadelphia
Richard
$200 [27]
In the early 1900s this fast food was sometimes called "Coney Island Chicken"
hot dog
Joe Elaine
$200 [3]
It's the only country that borders both the Baltic & Black Seas
Soviet Union/Russia
Richard
$200 [23]
Like a lot of birds, the monarch butterfly does this in the winter
migrate
Richard
$200 [8]
Notre Dame University is located near this Indiana city first called Big St. Joseph
South Bend
Joe
DD $400 [13]
This1960 hit song served as the title tune to a 20th Century Fox film:
"North To Alaska" (by Johnny Horton)
Joe
$300 [19]
The territory acquired by the 1853 Gadsden Purchase is now part of these 2 states
Arizona & New Mexico
Elaine
$300 [28]
Native to Mexico, this pear-shaped green fruit is a hardy member of the laurel family
the avocado
Richard
$300 [4]
In Germany the autobahn is the freeway & the U-bahn, one of these
Subway/underground
Richard
$300 [24]
A camel's hump doesn't contain water, as once was thought, but this, for energy when food is scarce
fat
Elaine
$300 [9]
In a hit song by the Orlons, it's the answer to the question, "Where do all the hippies meet?"
"South Street"
$400 [15]
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar said, "If I could pray to move, prayers would move me; but I am as constant as" this
the North Star
Joe Elaine
$400 [20]
The Marquis de Lafayette served in the American Revolution, the Lafayette Escadrille in this war
World War I
Richard
$400 [5]
It's recommended you try the Sachertorte while at the Hotel Sacher in this capital city
Vienna
Richard
$400 [25]
The only female deer with antlers, it uses them to dig in the snow for food
a reindeer
Richard
$400 [10]
SEATO, a defensive alliance formed in 1954 & dissolved in 1977, was an acronym for this
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Elaine
$500 [16]
Robert Duvall portrayed Jesse James in this 1972 film about an 1876 bank robbery
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
$500 [21]
This last president from the Whig Party rode Lincoln's funeral train from Batavia, N.Y. to Buffalo
Millard Fillmore
Joe
$500 [6]
Tradition says throwing coins into this will insure your return to Rome
the Trevi Fountain
Joe
$500 [26]
Marine creature whose zoological name is Hippocampus
a seahorse
$500 [11]
This successful, no-frills airline is headquartered at Love Field in Dallas
Southwest Airlines
Joe

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT ROME THEATER MUSEUMS NEW HAMPSHIRE BIOGRAPHIES THE CIA
$200 [13]
This church faced periodic persecution for 300 years, until Constantine's conversion
the Christian Church
Joe
$200 [27]
Prince Chulalongkorn becomes king at the end of this Rodgers & Hammerstein musical
The King and I
Joe
$200 [1]
Estavayer-Le-Vac, Switzerland boasts a museum full of these dead amphibians arranged in human poses
frogs
$200 [6]
Several weeks before July 4, 1776 New Hampshire issued its own one of these
a Declaration of Independence
Richard
$200 [4]
One biography of this author was called "The Man Who Wrote Dracula", which lacks a certain bite
Bram Stoker
Elaine
$200 [11]
Director of the CIA during the Iran-Contra scandal, he died before he could testify at the hearings
William Casey
Richard
$400 [14]
In 73 B.C. he escaped from a school for gladiators & gathered an army of 70,000 rebels
Spartacus
Richard
$400 [24]
"Cold-blooded" author who set his musical "House of Flowers" in a bordello in the West Indies
Truman Capote
Richard
$400 [2]
In English, Brazil's Museu do Ouro & Colombia's Museo del Oro are both known as this
the Museum of Gold
Richard
$400 [7]
New Hampshire quarries provided this type of stone for building the Library of Congress
granite
Richard
$400 [5]
"Madame Sarah" is Cornelia Otis Skinner's biography of this woman
Sarah Bernhardt
Richard
$400 [12]
In 1975 the Rockefeller Commission concluded the CIA was spying illegally in this country
the U.S.A.
Richard
$600 [15]
Ironically, the last titular emperor of Rome bore this name, the same as Rome's founder
Augustus Romulus
Richard
$600 [3]
This island, famous for its coffee beans, is the home of the Royal Kona Coffee Mill & Museum
the Big Island of Hawaii
Richard
$600 [8]
A key element in local gov't is this type of meeting held annually on the first Tuesday in March
a town meeting
Elaine
$800 [19]
Maude Howe Elliott won a Pulitzer Prize for co-authoring a book about this poet, her mother
Julia Ward Howe
Joe Richard
$600 [21]
He directed the CIA in the 1950s while his brother was Secretary of State
Allen Dulles (his brother was John Foster Dulles)
Richard
$800 [16]
Admission was free at this huge arena, estimated to have been 3 times the size of the Colosseum
the Circus Maximus
Richard
$800 [9]
The Woolaroc Museum near Bartlesville in this state is famous for its collection of Indian blankets
Oklahoma
Richard
$800 [25]
Though it's New Hampshire's largest port city, the naval shipyard of the same name is in Maine
Portsmouth
Richard
$1,000 [20]
This author, not Gary Larson, is the subject of "The Far Side of Paradise"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Richard
$800 [22]
The CIA & this watchdog "council" were established by the same act of Congress in 1947
the National Security Council
Richard
$1,000 [17]
Emperor Julian, who sought to restore paganism in place of Christianity, was nicknamed this
Julian the Apostate
Richard
$1,000 [10]
The buildings that house the Science Museum of Va. & Paris' Musee d'Orsay were once this type of station
a train station
Richard
$1,000 [26]
In New Hampshire, these geographic features are called notches
mountain passes
Richard
DD $5,000 [18]
He was a biographer himself, but he's best known as the subject of a 1791 biography
Samuel Johnson
Richard
$1,000 [23]
One of the CIA's early major operations was to help restore this Mideastern potentate to his throne in 1953
the Shah of Iran
Joe Elaine Richard

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN LITERATURE

Merlin the Magician cast a spell putting this title character to sleep for 1,300 years

A Connecticut Yankee (In King Arthur's Court)

Joe "What is a CT yankee in K.A.'s court?" — wagered $500
Elaine "What is a Connecticut Yankee?" — wagered $3,201
Richard "Who was a Connecticut Yankee?" — wagered $3,600

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